Alexander Cobbe

General Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe VC, GCB, KCSI, DSO was a senior British Indian Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Alexander Stanhope Cobbe was born onJune 1870 in Naini Tal, Bengal Presidency, India, the third child and second son of Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Hugh Cobbe and Emily Barbara Cobbe, ne Jones. Through his fathers family he was descended from Charles Cobbe , archbishop of Dublin his grandmother, the wife of Colonel Thomas Cobbe, was Nuzzeer Begum Khan, thereby making Alexander a distinguished AngloIndian Alexander had two sisters and four brothers of the latter two became lieutenant colonels in the British Army and one a captain in the Royal Navy. In 1881 he was a pupil at Eagle House School, Wimbledon. He went on to Wellington College and then followed his elder brother Henry Hercules Cobbe to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from where he passed out in 1889. At the age ofhe was commissioned a second lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers.

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